It's About Data

Jean-Georges Perrin, a Data and AI leader at Actian with roots as an entrepreneur and consultant for companies like PayPal and Expedia. He talks about how AI reshapes the data conversation. He contrasts technical data contracts with human business context. He covers data products, provenance, and the Bitol/ODCS standards to make data AI-ready.

Juan Sequeda (ServiceNow) was one of our first guest and joins us for this special 1st anniversary episode. He imparts lessons learned in years of building ontologies.Catalog and Cocktails, Juan's podcast with Tim Gasper.https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/catalog-cocktails-the-honest-no-bs-data-podcast/id1524652737#artificialintelligence #dataanalytics

Miran Badzak (Executive Director, Databases  @IBM  ) joins us to roadmap the future for AI-driven database autonomy and discuss some major announcements for IBM Db2.

Russell Spitzer joins us at Data Day Texas 2026 to discuss his work on the Apache Iceberg project.#dataanalytics #datamanagement #opensource

Andrew Brust (CEO of bluebadgeinsights.com) joins us to discuss the hype and excitement around AI agents. This episode continues the conversation from episode 50.Episode 50:https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/ebTJzJGTv1b#aiagents #aihype #dataanalytics

Andrew Brust, founder of Blue Badge Insights and longtime Microsoft data platform expert. He explores how Microsoft Fabric and Fabric IQ connect AI to business data. He explains why ontologies and semantic layers matter for reducing hallucinations. He discusses graph engines, agents, and practical ontology adoption and who should build them.

We chat with Aaron Black ( @oreilly  ) about the state of tech publishing. Do we still need books when we have AI? What do physical books have to do with vinyl records? This episode was recorded at Data Day Texas 2026.#artificialintelligence #techindustry #publishing

This is a continuation of the conversation with Bruno in episode 47. What do you get for the enterprise that has everything? We've had systems of record, systems of engagement, and systems of intelligence for some time, but now it's time for action.Episode 47:https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ewPRBEDo6B7jL4WF8s92K?si=gE2EXLTfSE-0kpSOffOQYABruno's substack:https://carcast.substack.com/#artificialintelligence #dataanalytics

Bruno Aziza ( @IBM  ) joins the show to discuss trust, hybrid cloud, hybrid model strategy, and systems of action.#dataanalytics #hybridcloud #artificialintelligence

In this episode, we sit down with Patrick McFadin (IBM) at Data Day Texas 2026.